yes they do they are derogatory ways to identify and they offend specific groups africanamericans were called nigger the same way we are called laowai up until the civil rights movement when it became a social taboo and black people saw themselves as selfliberated from being called it by their former oppressors in much the same way eventually chinese people are going to face a backlash as enough people come to realize that chinese people are actually whispering white nigger behind their back i dont care if the context is polite or if its something mysterious to their culture its all so much horseshit ask me my name and use my name if you call me laowai over and over again we are never going to be friendly and you are a racist